SCO/Brönnimann – review

City Halls, GlasgowThe New-Zealand-born composer Lyell Cresswell has lived in Edinburgh since the early 1980s and has written regularly for the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. His latest piece for them, a triple concerto premiered here with the Swiss Piano Trio as soloists, is crafted with flattering familiarity, as if for old friends; its clean, balanced textures perfectly suit the SCO. The concerto is organised into eight short interlocking movements with names such as "Giocoso-tranquillo", "… q...

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